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People's initiative (or "PI") is a common appellative in the Philippines that refers to either a mode for constitutional amendment provided by the 1987 Philippine Constitution or to the act of pushing an initiative (national or local) allowed by the Philippine Initiative and Referendum Act of 1987. The appellative also refers to the product of ...
The People's Initiative (PI) outlines the procedures for constituents to propose changes to the constitution through a petition process. The process is summarized as: A petition for a People's Initiative must be signed by at least 12% of the total number of registered voters, with each legislative district represented by at least 3% of its ...
The Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the People's Initiative method of amending the constitution is "fatally defective", or inoperable. Another ruling in 2006 on another attempt at a People's Initiative was ruled unconstitutional by the court [15] This only leaves the Constituent Assembly and the Constitutional Convention as the valid ways to amend the constitution.
People's Initiative refers to either a mode for constitutional amendment provided by the 1987 Philippine Constitution or to the act of pushing an initiative (national or local) allowed by the Initiative and Referendum Act of 1987. While there had been no national people's initiative, there had been several attempts at one.
Amendment 2 asks voters to decide whether public money should be spent on nonpublic education.
The other two modes are via people's initiative and constitutional convention. All three require a majority vote in a national referendum. A constituent assembly is composed of all members of the bicameral Congress of the Philippines (Senate and the House of Representatives). It is convened by Congress to propose amendments to the 1987 ...
Here’s what Second Amendment actually says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
A ballot initiative in Oregon frequently mentioned by Amendment 2 supporters would have criminalized hunting, fishing and farming as part of an overall ban on the injury or killing of animals.